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Research in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that electronic prescribing systems might allow greater efficiency at hospitals, which could result in long-term cost savings and improved quality of care.
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If flight crews have to do it before takeoff, why shouldn't surgical teams do it before cutting into a patient?
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The most frequent request we get at our office is to troubleshoot facilities. This request comes from freestanding surgery centers, hospital ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), hospital operating rooms, and everything in between.
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IRBs often seek new members who are experienced scientists, professors, and medical doctors. But they might be missing an opportunity to educate and engage young scientists by overlooking that pool of potential ethics board members.
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Electronic IRB submission technology can be of great use to even small research institutions, once it's integrated with existing technology.
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A major pharmaceutical company is leading the way to making accreditation as ubiquitous among IRBs as it is among health care organizations.
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The conventional wisdom in research circles is that IRBs are the main drag on the process, slowing down the progress of a clinical trial with an unnecessarily complicated review system.
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Joan S. Braveman, director of patient access and financial services at Tallahassee (FL) Memorial HealthCare, says that her department is in the process of doing "complete re-education" on the Medicare Secondary Payer questionnaire.
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Although workflow management is not a new phenomena in the business world, it is relatively new in revenue cycle operations, especially in patient access operations, says John Woerly, RHIA, CHAM, senior manager at Accenture in Indianapolis.
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Do you want to discourage staff, send a registrar's morale plummeting, and as a result, deal with higher turnover in your department? If not, don't make these morale-busting mistakes: